Marry and Murder Your Way to the Top in Deadly Dowagers

Jan 18, 2024

February will bring a card game of marriage and murder from Sparkworks and Tabletop Tycoon. In Deadly Dowagers, players take on the roles of Victorian era women spinning dastardly schemes to murder their way into a royal family. The game is for two to six players, ages 14+, plays in around 30 to 90 minutes, and will carry an MSRP of $35.00 when it lands in stores next month.

About the game:

Deadly Dowagers is a strategic, card-drafting game filled with marriage, money, and murder. You start as a middle-class Victorian woman who would simply kill to be a duchess. However, the other ladies in town have their eyes set on the new duke as well.

With a small dowry and a plot of land you must marry, grow your estate, survive the untimely death(s) of your unfortunate husband(s) and remarry into higher social status to attract the duke’s attention before another player accepts the duke’s proposal.

Each round, draft cards to grow your wealth, creatively put an end to your lover’s life, and remarry your way up the social ladder. Be warned, as you maneuver your way up the social ladder, rumors will start to spread and your infamy will grow.

The game ends when one player has no current husband, no more than 9 infamy, spends 120 crowns, and plays a remarry card to marry the Duke. That player wins.

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Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media for fifteen years, Jeff takes on any and all sorts of games but is especially ready to tackle roleplaying games and strategy games. He's been involved with the hobby since he was just a wee grade school lad, over four decades ago.